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Dark Corners

Dark Corners

A stand-alone novel published posthumously by Hutchinson in


I had come across a quote about half-way through the novel in which Carl sees Dermot looking like ‘the duke of dark corners’, a quote from one of Shakespeare’s most disturbing psychological plays, Measure for Measure. Immediately I knew we had our title, and fancied that this might have been Ruth’s intention all along.

Selina Walker 1

When Carl sells a box of slimming pills to his close friend Stacey, inadvertently causing her death, he sets in train a sequence of catastrophic events which begin with subterfuge, extend to lies, and culminate in murder.

Notes

Footnotes

  1. The story behind the publication of Ruth Rendell’s final novel. Penguin 2017. ↩︎

  2. No one can equal Ruth Rendell’s range or accomplishment. The Guardian, 02 May 2015. ↩︎

  3. Ruth Rendell: The most astonishing imagination in British crime fiction. The Telegraph 02 May 2015. ↩︎

  4. Ruth Rendell was very comfortable when her books were adapted for ITV. The Guardian, 06 May 2015. ↩︎

  5. Ruth Rendell: memories of a friend who stood by me. The Guardian, 08 May 2015. ↩︎

  6. An expert witness of the human condition. The New Statesman, 16 October 2015. ↩︎

  7. Ruth Rendell remembered by Valerie Amos. The Guardian, 27 Dec 2015. ↩︎